Pipefish

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Pipefish has 1 sense

pipefish(n = noun.animal) needlefish - fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates;

is a member of family syngnathidae, syngnathidae

has particulars: dwarf pipefish, syngnathus hildebrandi, cosmocampus profundus, deepwater pipefish, sea horse, seahorse

is a kind of teleost, teleost fish, teleostan

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Pipefish, n.

Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place. [1913 Webster]